Portable water-bucket



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' R. A. WILLIAMS.

. PORTABLE WATER BUCKET.

Patented May 5, 1885.

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R. A. WILLIAMS PORTABLE WATER'BUGKET. No. 317,059. Patented May 5, 1885.

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.dttomeyx/ UNITED STATES ROBERT ANTHONY WILLIAMS,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF KILMICHAEL, MISSISSIPPI.

PORTABLE WATER-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,059, dated May 5, 1885.

Application filed May 20, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT A. WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kilmichael, in the county of Montgomery and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Portable Water-Bucket, of which the following is a specificatiomreference beinghad to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to portable buckets designed to be operated in connection with a track or inclined plane, of wire, wood, or other suitable material, to be erected between the place of loading and deposit to carry and deliver water or anything else that may be desired; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the track and the truck with two buckets. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the track and a truck with three buckets.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates a post located near the house-door or other desired place of delivery, and b designates a post near a well or spring, or at or near any place where the article to be transported is placed. The post I) is inclined, as shown, and is shorter than the post a, in order to give the necessary incline to the track-rails c c, which are preferably of wire, although they may be made of boards turned edge upward, and secured to the posts a. and b and the intermediate posts, The inclined post bis recessed in its upper end at b, and a pulley, p, is journaled in the arms left at the sides of the recess 1). These arms b b are beveled both inwardly and outwardly on their tops, as shown, to permit the grooved truck-wheels to pass over them in ascending and descending from and to the well, spring, or ground, as the case may be. The wire track-rails c c are connected to a windlass, f, at the post a, which windlass f is used exclusively for keeping the wire track-rails c c taut. The posts 9 are placed at intervals of about twenty feet apart, and are provided with pulleys h, over which the rope i, that operates the truck it, passes, the pulleys preventing too much sagging of the rope and reducing the friction, and also serving to support the end- (No model.)

less belt, when one is used. The upper end of the rope '5 is wound upon a windlass, Z, at the upper end of the track, the lower end of the rope being connected to a tongue, m, secured in the axle n of the truck. The truck consists of the axlen and two grooved wheels, 0 0, loose on the axle so that the axle will be carried up and down the track without revolvin g. Instead of inclining the post I), I may erect it in a vertical position, and employ in connection with it an inclined guide-board, B, which carries the pulley and extends down into the well or spring.

When two buckets, r r, are used, they are suspended from the ends of the axle n on the outside of the track-rails. Where three pulleys are used, the pulley 10 must be moved from the middle of the axle n to one side, and the posts I) and a (and the inclined guide-board B, if employed) must have the recesses in their upper ends deep enough for the bucket r to pass through when suspended from the middle of the axle and be carried up and down between the track-rails.

When two and three buckets are used, when they reach the lower end of the track and decend into the spring or well and are filled, the windlass Z is operated to wind the ropec'there on, which operation causes the truck to ascend,coming first against the postb (or inclined guide 1B,)the wheels bearing against said board or post. As the elevating-rope passes over the pulley p, the truck is guided thereby so as to cause its wheels to take the track, and then ascends the track to the house or other place of delivery.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination of the inclined track, the guide-board located at the lower end of the track between said lower end of the track and the mouth of the well, a truck having wheels adapted to fit the track, an elevatingrope attached to the truck, and guiding-pulleys for said .rope, said pulleys, rope, and guide-board operating conjointly to causethe wheels of the truck to take the track when they leave the guide-board, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the inclined track,

the guiding board or post located at the lower In testimony that I claim the foregoing as end of said track between said lower end of my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the track and the mouth of the Well, guidingpresence of two witnesses.

pulleys h and p, the truck having the tongue 7 ROBERT ANTHONY WILLIAMS. 5 m, an elevating-rope attached to the tongue, Witnesses:

and buckets suspended from the truck for the \V. A. GEE,

purpose set forth, substantially as described. J. \V. BENNETT. 

